Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1509
Dimensions:   Max. p. dim. 5.4.
Published Number:   AV 29.1509
References:   Object: P 808
Fragment of shoulder.

Shoulder slightly convex. Decoration in brown glaze: broad band at angle with two narrow bands above; tendrils of ivy(?) garland on shoulder. Hard, friable, light red fabric (2.5YR 6/6) with abundant golden mica; hard, pinkish white slip (7.5YR 8/2).

Garlands also appear on 1516 and 1537. For ivy garlands on lagynoi see Leroux 1913, no. 45, pp. 30--31 (Cyprus), no. 65, p. 37 (Cyrenaica); Broneer 1935, pp. 71--72, fig. 16 (Corinth); BCH 96, 1972, pp. 190--191, fig. 56:a (Argos, in context of middle to third quarter of 2nd century); Belin de Ballu 1972, p. 115, pl. XXXVIII (Olbia); PF II, F 21--F 23, p. 114, fig. 6:1--3, pl. 43 (Pergamon); Giannikouri, Patsiada, and Philimonos 1990, p. 176, pl. 90:α, β (Rhodes); Antioch IV, i, p. 28, fig. 8:17, 19, 20; SwCyprusExp IV, iii, figs. 23:1, 28:9, BCH 84, 1960, pp. 294--295, fig. 71, BCH 101, 1976, p. 857, fig. 33, BCH 108, 1946, pp. 952--953, fig. 152, and BCH 109, 1985, no. 11, p. 900, fig. 12 (all from Cyprus); CVA, Mainz 2 [Germany 43], p. 79, pl. 39 [2096]:5 (probably from Cyprus); CVA, Brussels 3 [Belgium 3], pl. 2 [140]:13 (Cyrenaica); Kokkou-Buridi 1982, no. 108, p. 55, fig. 7, pl. ΛΑ. Grapevines are also known but are much less common: Antioch IV, i, p. 28, fig. 8:18; CVA, Stuttgart 1 [Germany 26], pl. 40 [1252]:1, 2 (Alexandria).